CLAE News

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• "Nazi looted relics returned to former owner's heirs"
  Reuters, 1 July 2008
• "Germany Posts List of Looted Nazi Art on Internet"
  Deutsche Welle, 1 August 2007
• "Boost for victims of Nazi art thefts"
  The Jewish Chronicle, 29 June 2007
• "Stolen treasure"
  Haaretz, 12 August 2004
• "Treasure Hunter"
  The Daily Telegraph, 15 February 2003
• "A Curator of Lost Artwork and Found Memories"
  The New York Times, 25 May 2002
• "Art sleuths claim back Hitler's loot"
  The Observer, 5 May 2002

• "New British law lets museums return works stolen by Nazis"
  Haaretz, 15 November 2009
• "UK museums can return looted art"
  BBC News, 13 November 2009
• "New legal right for Nazi-looted art heirs"
  Jewish Chronicle, 28 October 2009
• "House of Commons OKs Restitution Bill on Nazi-Looted Art"
  Artinfo, 29 June 2009
• "Museums ready to hand back Nazi loot"
  Sunday Herald, 14 June 2009
• "New looted art law effective ‘in autumn’"
  Jewish Chronicle, 12 June 2009
• "British institutions to return art looted by the Nazis"
  The Times, 29 July 2005
• "British bill to smooth way for return of Nazi-looted art"
  CBC, 29 July 2005
• "Minister supports law change on looted art"
  Jewish Chronicle 27 July 2005
• "Britain may rewrite its laws in order to return Nazi-looted art"
  Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 14 July 2005

• "Israel Museum returns artifacts looted by Nazis"
  Jerusalem Post AP, 1 July 2008
• "Israel Museum Buys Back Nazi-Looted Gold Medallions From Heirs"
  Bloomberg, 1 July 2008
• "Nazi looted relics returned to former owner's heirs"
  Reuters, 1 July 2008
• "Israel restitutes Nazi-looted art"
  JTA, 1 July 2008
• Related press release

• "Nazi-Looted Cross Saved From Garbage Returns to Heirs"
  Bloomberg, 6 May 2008
• "Polish heir wants looted cross returned to his museum in Poland"
  International Herald Tribune, 22 August 2007
• "Austria: Middle Ages cross turns up in trash"
  International Herald Tribune, 16 August 2007
• Related press releases

• "Irrwege eines Pissarro - Geschichte einer Restitution"
  Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 31 October 2009
• "Family wrangle halts sale of £1.5m Pissarro stolen by the Gestapo"
  The Times, 24 June 2009
• "Fee row over found Pissarro"
  Jewish Chronicle, 21 March 2008
• "CMC Professor Involved in Art Restitution Controversy"
  Claremont Independent 12 March 2008
• "Pissarro Lost and Found"
  ARTnews, 1 September 2007
• "Nazi Art Dealer's Will Disperses Dutch Masters, Expressionists"
  Bloomberg, 12 July 2007
• "Nazi-Looted Pissarro in Zurich Bank Pits Heiress Against Dealer"
  Bloomberg, 6 June 2007

• "Owners sought for Nazi-looted books"
  Jewish Chronicle, 29 February 2008

• "What an ugly business"
  Evening Standard, 25 January 2008
• "Russia approves UK art exhibition"
  BBC News, 10 January 2008
• "Russia calls off major art loan as ties with UK worsen"
  Guardian, 19 December 2007
• "The plot to protect art looted by the Nazis"
  Evening Standard, 27 November 2006

• "McAleese remarks 'uncalled for'"
  RTE, 22 January 2008
• "Irish Museum Cleared of Nazi Loot Claim"
  Associated Press, 29 September 2007
• "Team probing 'Nazi loot' in museum quits"
  The Sunday Times - Ireland, 13 February 2005
• "Hunt Museum takes Action to Examine Centre Simon Wiesenthal Allegations about the Hunt Collection"
  13 February 2004
• Related press release

• "Reporter returns painting looted in World War Two"
  The Scotsman, 2 June 2006
• "Reporter returns looted portrait"
  BBC News UK, 1 June 2006
• "Renaissance woman returned to gallery"
  The Guardian, 1 June 2006
• Related press release

• "Judge blocks return of pictures looted from victim of Nazis"
  The Guardian, 28 May 2005
• "Nazi loot setback"
  The Times, 28 May 2005
• "UK High Court plugs loophole on Marbles"
  Kathimerini, 28 May 2005
• "British Museum Can't Return Looted Works, Court Says"
  Bloomberg, 27 May 2005
• "Art stolen by Nazis 'cannot be returned'"
  The Scotsman, 27 May 2005
• "High Court Judgement - 27 May 2005. Holocaust Spoilation and the Feldmann Drawings"
  27 May 2005
• "Law blocks return of looted art"
  BBC News, 27 May 2005
• "Elgin Marbles cast dark shadow over looted art"
  The Times, 25 May 2005
• Related press releases

• "Gift of art to atone for looting by Nazis"
  The Times, 2 December 2004
• "Return Nazi-grab art"
  NY Daily News, 1 December 2004
• "Nazi-looted Rembrandt handed back 65 years later"
  Reuters, 30 November 2004

• "After four decades of struggle, heirs of Czech collector win back some art"
  Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 28 March 2003

• "Nazi loot claim 'compelling'"
  BBC, 2 October 2002
• ""British Museum admits it has art looted by Nazis""
  The Independent, 2 October 2002
• "British Museum to return drawings looted by Nazis"
  The Times, 2 October 2002
• "Nazi-looted art set to go back to family"
  The Daily Telegraph, 2 October 2002
• "Looted pictures' claim against British Museum"
  The Guardian, 28 May 2002
• "Family of Nazi victims claim museum pictures"
  The Telegraph,, 28 May 2002
• "British Museum faces Nazi loot claim"
  BBC, 28 May 2002
• Related press release

• "Treasure Hunter"
  The Daily Telegraph, 15 February 2003
• "Art sleuths claim back Hitler's loot"
  The Observer, 5 May 2002
• Related press release